I have had it up to here waiting for the Beatles catalogue to be remastered

Damn, this remastering of Something sounds really good to me.

Really ? I don’t find it very different. That said I’m not a big fan of Abbey Road so not really excited by this.
Rubber Soul and Revolver, on the other hand...

I liked both the Pepper and white album projects a lot (white album more than pepper). Abby Road is an almost perfect sounding album already, so interested to see what this does. More interested in the outtakes as usual.

gave all three a listen, all three sound amazing.

Don't remember the cymbal action on the bridge being that upfront.

I don’t even care about how it sounds, I just want the damn outtakes!

^^^

why with all the PR is there no actual tracklisting

It's basically gonna be all the Maxwell's takes, right?

here's the tracklisting of all the various versions

SUPER DELUXE [3CD+1Blu-ray set; digital audio collection]

CD ONE: 2019 Stereo Mix

1. Come Together

2. Something

3. Maxwell’s Silver Hammer

4. Oh! Darling

5. Octopus’s Garden

6. I Want You (She’s So Heavy)

7. Here Comes The Sun

8. Because

9. You Never Give Me Your Money

10. Sun King

11. Mean Mr Mustard

12. Polythene Pam

13. She Came In Through The Bathroom Window

14. Golden Slumbers

15. Carry That Weight

16. The End

17. Her Majesty

CD TWO: Sessions

1. I Want You (She’s So Heavy) (Trident Recording Session & Reduction Mix)

2. Goodbye (Home Demo)

3. Something (Studio Demo)

4. The Ballad Of John And Yoko (Take 7)

5. Old Brown Shoe (Take 2)

6. Oh! Darling (Take 4)

7. Octopus’s Garden (Take 9)

8. You Never Give Me Your Money (Take 36)

9. Her Majesty (Takes 1–3)

10. Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight (Takes 1–3 / Medley)

11. Here Comes The Sun (Take 9)

12. Maxwell’s Silver Hammer (Take 12)

CD THREE: Sessions

1. Come Together (Take 5)

2. The End (Take 3)

3. Come And Get It (Studio Demo)

4. Sun King (Take 20)

5. Mean Mr Mustard (Take 20)

6. Polythene Pam (Take 27)

7. She Came In Through The Bathroom Window (Take 27)

8. Because (Take 1 – Instrumental)

9. The Long One (Trial Edit & Mix – 30 July 1969)

(Medley: You Never Give Me Your Money, Sun King, Mean Mr Mustard, Her Majesty, Polythene Pam, She Came In Through The Bathroom Window, Golden Slumbers, Carry That Weight, The End)

10. Something (Take 39 – Instrumental – Strings Only)

11. Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight (Take 17 – Instrumental – Strings & Brass Only)

BLU-RAY: Abbey Road

Audio Features:

- Dolby Atmos

- 96kHz/24 bit DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1

- 96kHz/24 bit High Res Stereo (2019 Stereo Mix)

DELUXE 3LP VINYL BOX SET (limited edition)

LP ONE: Side 1 (2019 Stereo Mix)

1. Come Together

2. Something

3. Maxwell’s Silver Hammer

4. Oh! Darling

5. Octopus’s Garden

6. I Want You (She’s So Heavy)

LP ONE: Side 2 (2019 Stereo Mix)

1. Here Comes The Sun

2. Because

3. You Never Give Me Your Money

4. Sun King

5. Mean Mr Mustard

6. Polythene Pam

7. She Came In Through The Bathroom Window

8. Golden Slumbers

9. Carry That Weight

10. The End

11. Her Majesty

LP TWO: Side 1 (Sessions)

1. I Want You (She’s So Heavy) (Trident Recording Session and Reduction Mix)

2. Goodbye (Home Demo)

3. Something (Studio Demo)

4. The Ballad Of John And Yoko (Take 7)

5. Old Brown Shoe (Take 2)

LP TWO: Side 2 (Sessions)

1. Oh! Darling (Take 4)

2. Octopus’s Garden (Take 9)

3. You Never Give Me Your Money (Take 36)

4. Her Majesty (Takes 1–3)

5. Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight (Takes 1–3) / Medley)

6. Here Comes The Sun (Take 9)

7. Maxwell’s Silver Hammer (Take 12)

LP THREE: Side 1 (Sessions)

1. Come Together (Take 5)

2. The End (Take 3)

3. Come and Get It (Studio Demo)

4. Sun King (Take 20)

5. Mean Mr Mustard (Take 20)

6. Polythene Pam (Take 27)

7. She Came In Through The Bathroom Window (Take 27)

8. Because (Take 1 Instrumental)

LP THREE: Side 2 (Sessions)

1. The Long One (Trial Edit & Mix – 30 July 1969)

2. Something (Take 39 – Instrumental – Strings Only)

3. Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight (Take 17 – Instrumental – Strings & Brass Only)

DELUXE 2CD

CD ONE: 2019 Stereo Mix

CD TWO: Sessions

1. Come Together (Take 5)

2. Something (Studio Demo)

3. Maxwell’s Silver Hammer (Take 12)

4. Oh! Darling (Take 4)

5. Octopus’s Garden (Take 9)

6. I Want You (She’s So Heavy) (Trident Recording Session & Reduction Mix)

7. Here Comes The Sun (Take 9)

8. Because (Take 1 Instrumental)

9. You Never Give Me Your Money (Take 36)

10. Sun King (Take 20)

11. Mean Mr Mustard (Take 20)

12. Polythene Pam (Take 27)

13. She Came In Through The Bathroom Window (Take 27)

14. Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight (Takes 1–3 / Medley)

15. The End (Take 3)

16. Her Majesty (Takes 1–3)

STANDARD [1CD; digital; 1LP vinyl; limited edition 1LP picture disc vinyl]

2019 Stereo Mix

huh, so just one officially unreleased song eh ("Goodbye")

It's near-perfect, recorded on an 8-track transistor board with mono never even an option. What're they going to do, make the anvil hits louder?

Listening to the album rn, and judging by the new "Something", I think alot of work is going to be done on pushing up the drums and cymbals.

Also: Never thought about it before, but the original mix sounds like concessions were made to accommodate playback on mono devices, which be removed in the new version.

huh, so just one officially unreleased song eh ("Goodbye")
were there any other things rumored? i don't think they did stuff during these sessions that would end up on their various solo albums ... might be wrong though.

Madman, Watching Rainbows...? some of George's ATMP songs? Maybe those were Let It Be sessions.

the original mix sounds like concessions were made to accommodate playback on mono devices

I remember hearing the orchestra on “The End” for the first time on Anthology 3.

Didn’t “Something” originally have a long coda, cut from the released version, that Lennon later repurposed for “Remember”?

(I’ve never heard it, just remember reading about it.)

That's definitely mentioned in Revolution In The Head and I'm pretty sure it shows up on a bootleg but the second part I might just have imagined.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceNvbYZ2p8o

Is it just me or is the bass playing on this way sloppier than you'd expect? Also, Paul's trying too hard on Something

LOL wow, yeah never really noticed that on the song before but yeesh, dial it back a notch bud

Harrison said rhe same thing iirc

Yeah, George said he wished he’d gotten Willie Weeks to play on it.

The strings are more prominent on this new Something. That and all the string/instrumental outtakes make me wonder if Giles saw this project as a kind of tribute to his dad.

That's a bit of a reach at this stage.

New mixes of Oh! Darling up

listening off my macbook speakers, doesn't sound appreciably different but I can hear some of the background vox a bit clearer I suppose. at the very least it seems no worse than the original (and I still think abby road is the best mixed and engineered beatles album)

background vox a bit clearer I suppose

Yes and lead guitar less impactful sounding. Really failing to see the point.

If there's a vision for what they're doing with this stuff, I can't see it.

$$$$$$$$

no, wait
££££££££££

re£etting the copyright date too prob

uh the bass on "Something" is sick wtf

yeah, I don't even hear the difference on this remix... (a little more on "Something").
That one remix album seems particularly pointless.
Too bad, the pre-Pepper ones would have been more interesting (especially since they were so heavily panned on the stereo versions).

everything sounds a little cleaner and brighter afaict. those backing vocals are p sick

the drums sound great

Skipping Revolver in the remixing exercise is unforgivable imo. Some cleaner track separation on songs like She Said She Said and I'm Only Sleeping would be much more interesting than these ever so slightly remixed Abbey Road tracks.

I dread the Let it Be one. I't's going to be like 10 discs of awful covers.

.. and a film by Peter Jackson!

actually it's a trilogy

hour-long scene of the band filling Twickenham with farts

Skipping Revolver in the remixing exercise is unforgivable imo.

I don't think they skipped it so much as it just didn't occur to them at the time to do a big anniversary package. Pepper was the first such Beatles box, and approached as a one-off; they initially denied they would do boxes for subsequent albums. Hopefully after next-year's fart-filled Let It Be box they'll properly revisit Revolver.

Those 50-year anniversaries sneak up on you!

LEAVE REVOLVER ALONE

ADD MORE OVERDUBS TO RUBBER SOUL

revolver's stereo mix is fucked up, listen to Elenor Rigby and that awful thing that happens to the vocal at the very beginning. needs to be rebalanced.

And that edit noise that starts Yellow Submarine

don't care because I am a mono basic binch

I was gonna make a joke about a James Last remix, then I thought maybe it would be funnier if I said Jive Bunny instead, then it occurred to me that that Cirque du Soleil thing got there way before me.

Do they definitely have access to the tapes for Revolver to do a job on them like they did with Sgt Pepper?

Because Revolver + Rubber Soul would be more interesting mixed to a more contemporary stereo mix than Abbey Road which is already mixed brilliantly.

Mark Lewisohn interview in the guardian today is v good

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/sep/11/the-beatles-break-up-mark-lewisohn-abbey-road-hornsey-road

Why wouldn't they have access to the tapes of Revolver (or any other album) ?

They do, they were used for LOVE, Rock Band et al.

and Yellow Sub Songtrack remixes